Merchandising Manager

🕒 July 10

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2Modern

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11 - 50 employees

🛒 Retail

Retail

2Modern is a leading retailer of modern furniture, lighting, and home decor founded by Greg Finney in 2003. Independently grown, 2Modern continues to be guided by passion for authentic design.

📋 Description

• Own the overall health, performance, and strategic direction of an assigned portfolio of luxury brands. • Build trusted relationships with vendor partners, serving as their primary business advisor and day-to-day point of contact. • Lead assortment planning, business reviews, promotional planning, pricing discussions, and long-term growth initiatives. • Identify opportunities to strengthen partnerships through thoughtful business recommendations backed by data and market insights. • Ensure alignment with 2Modern's merchandising standards, operational requirements, and brand presentation expectations. • Develop curated assortments that reflect customer demand, design leadership, and business performance. • Drive assortment optimization through SKU productivity analysis, whitespace identification, lifecycle management, and rationalization initiatives. • Evaluate opportunities for expansion, contraction, and new product introductions based on profitability, customer behavior, and market trends. • Partner with leadership on new brand launches, seasonal merchandising strategies, and category growth initiatives. • Monitor competitive positioning, pricing, and industry trends to maintain 2Modern's premium market position. • Own brand performance through ongoing analysis of sales, gross profit, margin, return rates, customer experience, inventory considerations, and operational metrics. • Translate data into actionable recommendations that improve profitability and customer experience. • Identify risks, opportunities, and emerging trends, proactively developing strategies to accelerate growth or address underperformance. • Support forecasting, promotional planning, and business reviews with data-driven insights. • Partner closely with Marketing, Site Merchandising, Production, Operations, Trade, Customer Experience, and Leadership to ensure flawless execution across the customer journey. • Ensure products launch accurately, are merchandised effectively, and meet 2Modern's standards for content quality, imagery, navigation, and discoverability. • Coordinate promotional initiatives, assortment updates, pricing changes, and operational improvements across departments. • Help create alignment around merchandising priorities through clear communication and shared business objectives.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of merchandising or category management experience within luxury home furnishings, lighting, furniture, or premium consumer brands. • A strong business mindset with experience managing assortment performance, profitability, and strategic growth initiatives. • Strong analytical skills and confidence using data to influence merchandising decisions. • Experience building collaborative vendor relationships while balancing brand needs with business objectives. • Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously. • A refined design sensibility and strong merchandising eye, paired with a disciplined, customer-first approach to assortment planning. • Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional teams and external partners. • Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets; familiarity with Shopify and modern eCommerce merchandising platforms is preferred.